Tom Putting a huge enhancement to SMF such as the below described by John Eells into an SPE for current releases - just a PTF in the service stream - sounds like a fairly risky thing to do. I certainly wouldn't want IBM to do that. Just my opinion.
On the other hand, a downloadable web deliverable (a dependent function, similar to zIIP support for z/OS 1.6/1.7) that only customers who really really want the relief for SMF can go ahead and install, that might be a better idea. But, at the end of the day, my guess is that absent some huge groundswell of customer demand, we'll all just have to wait for z/OS 1.9. Again, no inside info, just my opinion. Brian On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:57:06 -0600, Tom Schmidt wrote: >On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:22:59 -0500, John Eells wrote: > >>Starting in z/OS R9, you can send SMF data to a log stream. You >>will be able to separate different sets of SMF record types to >>different log streams, specify different retention periods for >>different log streams, and so on. There will be a new version of >>IFASMFDP (IFASMFDL) that knows how to get SMF data from a log stream. >> >>If you can hold off long enough to get to R9, this should be >>worth a look. It's intended to solve exactly the kinds of >>problems you're having. > > >Hmmm... maybe IBM could have pity on its customers and package those SMF >changes as an SPE for z/OS 1.7 and 1.8? > >Not many shops will be on 1.9 for a year and a fair number won't be on 1.9 >for up to 2 years. That's a long time to make customers wait for relief. > >-- >Tom Schmidt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
